I joined the reddit Melbourne dt because it looked fun. Sometimes I comment sometimes I don’t. Then I read comments that are snarky and bitter and I think for a brief moment are you a cunt irl? Anyway love you guys ♥ (I am sober by the way. For the time being. Not afraid to show my feels).

Mr Sulu, set a course for the Friday drinks region. Warp factor 5.

Good news with a sting. I got my new casual role and pay confirmed and it’s definitely all in the right direction.

Unfortunately… Work wants the company car back immediately upon ending my ft role. They’ve been much more flexible with others who have gone casual in the past, and in the meeting he did say he’d give me some lead time so I can make my own arrangements, but… today after heading into the office he was all paggro and sarcastic again so I don’t expect any favours.

I was prepared for the eventuality and overall I MUCH prefer letting go my old work than keeping the car on, but seeing it in writing - to happen two weeks from now - has definitely been a shock to the nervous system. Like whoa, I wasn’t prepared to say bye so soon and go back to a carless life that fast, especially when I’ll still have two weeks of catsitting to do after that.

I’m definitely feeling that big-change-loss-anxiety-fear (and OMG! how will i visit my friends or get bigger groceries etc? I won’t be able to go into the office easily any more, no more regional trips unless I use carshare)

But I think it’s mixed in with excitement and determination because life is definitely making me start to commit to what I want and get out of that rut. I’ve lived on far far less and without a car for most of my adult life. Crucially, i never have to worry about being kicked out of this country. So everything is heaps better than before.

It’s time to get cracking …after I indulge in some escapism tonight. Good Omens maybe.

Hey people, I think you’re really cool and thank you for being cool. Like totally aeesome peolle thabkful to be here ahh 💜

Edit: no u

Cheers comrades 🍻

Tonight we’re celebrating an excellent report for our kid with food, beer and music 😉

I am doing 3 samosa

They are deep fried.

I am swapping 2 (!) samosa for 1 sanity.

That’s a good deal.

This has been a difficult week :(

There’s something just excellent about a fresh quality croissant - as-is. No filling.

A quick little story. My kid has a big group of friends. One is very needy, very self-centred young lass. Another is a meek young man. Well yesterday he had enough (I don’t know if this was in text or in person) but he told her “I can’t grow as a person with you in my life” and then ended all contact. I could not stop laughing at this.

For the record a couple of the friends had deaths in the family and the young lass was complaining that nobody was paying any attention to her.

I’m used to people pointing out that I talk “funny”, but a recent acquaintance I let dribble into a budding friendship won’t drop it. I have the slightest feeling they are trying to bait me into revealing its all an act when it really isn’t. I’ve politely steered the conversation away everytime but now it’s getting uncomfortable and it’s making me want to end any sort of thing we had building.

Maybe, I’m just extra tired and shouldn’t have gone to lunch with them.

I’d heard the legends online… in my hubris I laughed in the face of them and dared to indulge in a hearty meal at US Taco Bell. Wearing cream coloured shorts, I challenged the legends and trusted not one, not two but three farts on my trip back to the hotel… so I guess you can say I’m into extreme sports. Little did I know they were the horns sounding the announcement of the oncoming storm.

I am now an empty husk of my former self. I have been humbled by the Bell. The legends are true.

Pic of my life before it changed forever:

I used to be the opposite - if I were stressed or depressed, I would go ages without eating. Now, though, I feel I have unlocked a new ability or something. I should harness this and enter some kind of eating competition.

Nearly at the dreaded 300 comments (with spinny thing and collapsed responses). I’m proud of us.

A tiring but productive day in the garden today. I have a bunch of old concrete channel drain sections so I’ve used those and some old bricks to make a raised drainage channel across the garden. So now I can empty the buckets of water I use in the potting area onto that and it takes most of the water across to my apricot tree (with a few leaks along the way which will water other plants too).

After doing that, cutting out the climbing rose this morning and a few other bits and pieces I am thoroughly exhausted. I’m going to have a shower, heat some stew to have with mashed potato for dinner and then it will be full on relax time.

Working from home today.

This guy wants me to take him out I think.

Maybe I should have taken the day off from work today.

Everything is so much harder when you’re tired and in pain.